Sky News has been provided with a snapshot of the protests and hardship being witnessed by a Ukrainian inside the Russia-occupied city of Kherson
Officially, the port city of Kherson was one of the first in Ukraine to fall under Russian control.
But the occupation is not proving comfortable according to messages Sky News has received from a Ukrainian local resistance volunteer in the city on Friday, communicated through a contact in the UK.Pictures taken over several days from the city show protesters carrying the Ukrainian flag filing past Russian vehicles emblazoned with the letter Z - and Russian soldiers aiming their weapons at civilians.Image:Life in Kherson at the moment in relation to other cities is relatively calm.
The occupants tried to hold a fake referendum, but the population of the city came out to protest and frustrated all their plans.The big shops are closed. Mostly small retail outlets operate and agricultural products are brought from the suburbs.Children sit in shelters; schools and kindergartens do not work. The outskirts of the city are destroyed, many victims among the local population.And in general, the population of the city is patriotic.
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